The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armourBerners, Juliana
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The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour
Berners, Juliana
Falconry -- Early works to 1800; Heraldry -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800
And for to speke of the hert while we thynke oon̄
My chylde fyrst ye shaƚƚ hym ẜue when he shaƚƚ be vndoon̄
And that is for to say or euer ye hym dyght
With in his owne hornys to lay hym vpright
At thessay cut hym that lordys may see:
A noon fat or leen wheder that he bee
Than cut of the coddis the bely euen froo
Or ye begynne hym to flee: and then shaƚƚ ye goo
At chaulis: to begynne assone as ye may
And slyttith hym downe euen to thassay
And fro thassay euen dewne the bele shaƚƚ ye slitt
To the pissiƚƚ ther the codde was a way kytt
Then slit the lyfte legge euen first before
And then the lyfte legge by hynde or ye do moore
And thees oder legges vppon the right syde
vppon thessame maner slyt ye that tyde
To goo to the chekys looke ye be prest
And so fleeth hym downe euen to the brest
And so fleeth hym forth right vnto thessay
Euen to the place where the codde was cut a way
Then fleeth thessame wyse aƚƚ that oder syde
Bot let the tayƚƚ of the beest stiƚƚ ther oon byde
Than shaƚƚ ye hym vndo my chylde I yow Rede
Ryght vppon his awne skynne and lay hit on brede
Take heede of the cuttyng of thessame dere
And begynne fyrst to make the Erbere
Than take owt the shulderis. and slyttith a noon̄
The baly to the syde from the corbyn bone
That is corbyns fee: at the deeth he wiƚƚ be
Then take owt the sewet that hit be not lafte
For that my chylde is good for lechecraft
Than put thyn honde softely vnder the brest bone
And ther shaƚƚ ye take owt therber a noon
Than put owt the paunche. and from the paunche taas:
A way wightly the Rate sich. as he haas
Hoole it with a fyngre. do as I yow kenne
And with the bloode and the grece fillith hit thenne
Looke threde that ye haue and nedeƚƚ therto:
For to sew it with aƚƚ or ye moore do.
The smale guttis than ye shaƚƚ owt pyt
From hem take the maw. foryet not it.
Than take owt the leuer. and lay hit on the skynne
And after that the bledder with owt moore dynne
Than dresst the Nombles: first that ye reke
Downe the avauncers kerue that cleues to the necke
And downe with the bolthrote put them a noon
And kerue vp the flesħ ther vp to the hach boon̄
And so forth the fillittis that ye vp arere
That fallith to the nombles. and shaƚƚ be ther:
With the neres also and sewit: that ther is
Euen to the mydryf that vppon hym is
Than take downe the mydrif from the sides hoote
And haue vp the nombles hoole by the boƚƚ throte
In thyn hond than them holde. and looke and se
That aƚƚ that longith them to. to geder that thay be
Than take them to thy broder to holde for trist
Whylis thow them dowblyst and dightis as the list
Than a way the lyghtis. and oon̄ the skynne them lay
To a byde the querre my chylde I yow pray.
Than shaƚƚ ye slyt the slough ther as the hert lith
And take a way the Eres from it and by slyth
For sich heris hath his hert: ay it vppon
As men may se in the beest when he is vndon̄
And in the myddis of the hert a boon shaƚƚ ye fynde
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